U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearings on West Africa

The US Senate committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing on "Confronting Drug Trafficking in West Africa" on Tuesday.

Witnesses:

Panel 1:

• The Honorable Johnnie Carson
  Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
  Department of State
  Washington, DC
  
• William Wechsler
  Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
  Counternarcotics and Global Threats
  Department of Defense
  Washington, DC
  
• Thomas M. Harrigan
  Chief of Operations
  Drug Enforcement Administration
  Washington, DC

Panel 2:

• Douglas Farah
  Senior Fellow
  International Assessment & Strategy Center
  Takoma Park, MD
  
• Michael Braun
  Managing Partner
  Spectre Group International
  Alexandria, Virginia
  
• Michael McGovern
  Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  Yale University
  New Haven, CT

Detailed blogging on each witness's testimony will follow.